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Public choice economics of the Ukraine crisis 乌克兰危机的公共选择经济学

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16902649893380

D. Hebert, Leonid Krasnozhon

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Introducing public choice in international relations: the Russian invasion of Ukraine 在国际关系中引入公众选择：俄罗斯入侵乌克兰

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16872942837731

Aris Trantidis

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Understanding the timing and outcome of the Russian Revolution: a public choice approach 理解俄国革命的时机和结果:一种公共选择的方法

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16827529522153

G. Dempster, R. Ekelund, M. Thornton

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Presidents in deficit: are there historical rewards to deficits? 赤字总统:赤字有历史回报吗?

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-06-07 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16830188499713

Vincent Geloso, Marcus Shera

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Financial inclusion and tax effort in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of institutional quality 撒哈拉以南非洲的金融包容性和税收努力：制度质量的作用

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16817386486785

Oumarou Zallé

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Local land taxes and social media adoption in local governments: evidence from the German state of Hesse 地方土地税和地方政府采用社交媒体:来自德国黑森州的证据

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16801683769931

I. Bischoff, Aleksandra Wimberger

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Polycentric defense, Ukraine style: explaining Ukrainian resilience against invasion 多中心防御，乌克兰风格:解释乌克兰抵御入侵的韧性

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16795569226712

Yahya Alshamy, Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman, Garrett Wood

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James M. Buchanan as an urban economist James M. Buchanan是一位城市经济学家

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16717078287437

Daniel Kuehn

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Measuring untapped revenue potential in developing countries: cross-country frontier and panel data analysis 衡量发展中国家未开发的收入潜力:跨国边界和面板数据分析

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16613592544147

Željko Bogetić, Dominik Naeher, Raghavan Narayanan

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Liberty and the neoclassical fallacy 自由与新古典主义谬误

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Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1332/251569121x16571976613141

Barry R. Weingast

{"title":"Liberty and the neoclassical fallacy","authors":"Barry R. Weingast","doi":"10.1332/251569121x16571976613141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/251569121x16571976613141","url":null,"abstract":"Does liberty matter for economics? To address this question, I distinguish among three different types of liberty: Adam Smith’s, the neoclassical, and the so-called “classical liberal.” They differ in that the neoclassical and the classical liberal perspectives presume the existence, typically without noting it, of the four conditions that comprise the foundation of liberty, namely, secure property rights, enforcement of contracts, absence of government predation, and security. In contrast, Adam Smith sought to explain these foundations. In this article—an extraliterary review of one of the central themes of Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)—I draw the implications of Smith’s approach, and I explain why neoclassical economics—which takes the foundations of liberty as given—is unable to understand the work of Smith on this topic and, hence, on economic development. I also show that the neoclassical and the classical liberal approaches rest on a foundation of magic: they both presume the foundational conditions just noted but fail to explain how they arise. Put simply, the neoclassical approach has no explanation for the origin of liberty or of the mechanisms that sustain it. If markets require the four conditions of the foundation of liberty, then a complete explanation of the origin and development of markets must include an explanation of how these conditions come to hold. The Smithian economic perspective is especially important for today’s developing countries, most of which, at best, struggle to create the four foundational assumptions of liberty.","PeriodicalId":53126,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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